Re: [Audacity-quality] Bug 1024 - Check for updates fails

[Peter S. <pet...@ya...>]

http://audacityteam.org/download/?from_ver=2.1.2-alpha-Jul%2031%202015
Peter. Peter Sampson
Tel: +44 (0)1625 524 780

      From: Steve the Fiddle <ste...@gm...>
 To: Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...>; audacity-quality <aud...@li...> 
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 Subject: Re: [Audacity-quality] Bug 1024 - Check for updates fails
   
On 31 July 2015 at 16:01, Peter Sampson <pet...@ya...> wrote:
> Works on W7-HP 64-bit with latest  alpha nightly 2.1.2 r3715b21 31-jul-15

What address is shown in your web browser when you check for updates?

Steve

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> I reopened this bug because "Check for updates" fails with the current
> build.
>
> In this case, the reason for the failure is different. The URL that is
> passed to OpenInDefaultBrowser is:
> http://audacityteam.org/download/?from_ver=
> and then the version string.
> The problem is that for alpha builds, the version string ends with the
> date, which has spaces that produce a malformed URL.
>
> I can fix this by stripping the suffix from the end of the URL, which
> fixes it for now, but if we ever use the URL on the web server to tell
> the user if Audacity is the latest version, then the web server will
> not see the "alpha" status.
>
> An alternative approach would be to replace the spaces in the URL with
> hyphens. This would need to be done where we determine the URL because
> we use the full version string elsewhere (for example in AUP files).
> or
> We could strip the date from the URL in alpha builds.
> or
> For alpha builds we could add the commit id.
>
> The commit id is mentioned in the "build info" in "About Audacity",
> but in my builds it always shows as "No revision identifier was
> provided". Is this something that needs to be manually added when
> building?
>
> I think that the "best" solution will depend on what we intend to do
> on the web server. Currently we just return the main download page.
>
> Steve
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